overtake
overtake 英 [ˌəʊvəˈteɪk] 美 [ˌoʊvərˈteɪk]
vt. 赶上；压倒；突然来袭 vi. 超车
进行时:overtaking 过去式:overtook 过去分词:overtaken 第三人称单数:overtakes 名词复数:overtakes
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- vt. 赶上；压倒；突然来袭
- vi. 超车
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1. We managed to overtake the last train.
我们设法赶上了末班火车。
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2. By this stage other nations, near and far, had begun to overtake China in the move to mass literacy.
到了这个阶段，在国民文化提升运动中，远近的国家已经开始赶上中国。
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3. “We are heading for a crisis-driven choice,” he says.“We either allow collapse to overtake us or develop a new sustainable economic model.
“我们正走向一个受危机驱动的选择，”他说，“要么让崩溃压倒我们，要么开发一个新的可持续的经济模式。
- overtake (v.) "to come up to, to catch in pursuit," early 13c., from over- + take (v.). According to OED, originally "the running down and catching of a fugitive or beast of chase"; it finds the sense of over- in this word "not so clear." Related: Overtaken; overtaking. Old English had oferniman "to take away, carry off, seize, ravish."
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